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This was inspired by Evan Miller's "You Can't Dig Upwards" I urge aspiring and seasoned programmers to fully read through Evan Miller's You Can't Dig Upwards. It is a good read and explains my general feelings when it comes to computer science. In retrospect, learning stick shift was a prudent investment of time, even though I’ve never had to prove it to society by (for example) driving a stick-shift ambulance full of orphans while avoiding heavy gunfire. Driving stick is just a good skill to...

Misadventures in Go So I downloaded using the instruction on the go website, and clearly didn't pay attention to create the stuff in the directory I assigned it to. So, then I typed the go build command and it prompted me to install go using sudo apt get. go env to show a list of Go values I need to set the GOPATH I should probably have a rough idea of what the go environment variables are. Which reminds me: I should also know what the hell the bashrc is and how it control the environment. Wh...

Memories from Before I was Ten My father passed away when I was nine. Before that, I remember him trying his best to keep up with my growing up and my mom doing her best to do the same but also take care of him. My life before ten contained a lot of hospital visits and my mom helping my father in and out of a wheelchair, walking up (or down) 2 flights of stairs to the third floor, and my mom doing a double trip to get that wheelchair up (or down) those same 2 flights of stairs. One of my firs...

On Recently Going to a Hackathon Recently, I went back to my alma mater on behalf of the company I work for to try to scout some talent. The event we went to was a 27 hour hackathon. A hackathon is a gathering of people - generally computer scientists, and software developers - in which, teams or individuals work on a specific project for an extended period of time. As mentioned above, this one lasted 27 hours. Some hackathons can go on for days or every weekend for a month. The project can be...